The Robbie Tolan shooting incident took place in Bellaire, Texas, on December 31, 2008, when ten-year Bellaire police veteran Jeffrey Cotton shot unarmed Robbie Tolan, son of major league baseball player Bobby Tolan, in his parents' driveway. Tolan sustained serious injuries in the shooting and charges were pressed against Cotton.

2020年11月13日 · In the early morning hours of Dec. 31, 2008, Robbie Tolan, a Major League Baseball prospect and the son of former MLB player Bobby Tolan, was shot in his driveway in Bellaire, Texas by police...

2015年9月15日 · HOUSTON (CN) – The federal trial of a white Texas police officer accused of using excessive force for shooting a black man on his front porch ended with a settlement Tuesday morning. Bellaire, Texas agreed to pay $110,000 to Robert Tolan, his parents and his cousin Anthony Cooper. The bullet that ripped through Tolan’s lung and lodged

2018年1月8日 · ROBBIE TOLAN has spent the past decade fighting for the rights of black victims seeking justice when dealing with police officers and the judicial system. His law-making case, Tolan v. Cotton, has set the precedent in the way judges are allowed to grant police officers qualified immunity.

2014年5月24日 · Last week, justices--in a unanimous decision--ordered the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to reconsider a lawsuit filed by Robbie Tolan, a black man who was shot in front of his parents at...

Police officer John Edwards was patrolling a quiet neighborhood in Bellaire, Texas when he saw an SUV driven by two young African-American men, including Robbie Tolan. It was just before 2am on December 31, 2008. Edwards followed the SUV and ran the license plate number.

2019年12月9日 · Robbie Tolan will graduate from Prairie View A&M University this weekend, almost 11 years after he was shot by a Bellaire police officer outside of his parents’ home.

2018年1月9日 · On New Year’s eve 2008, Robbie Tolan was shot in the chest, after he was mistakenly accused of stealing his own car, while in his own driveway. It was a local story that made national headlines, "A young Black man, shot by a white police officer in the Houston suburb of Bellaire."

Robbie Tolan was shot by police in Bellaire, TX on December 31, 2008. At the age of 23, he was shot by police while in his own driveway, and in front of his cousin & parents, after officers mistakenly thought Robbie had stolen his own car.

2020年12月31日 · Robbie Tolan has baseball in his genes and a cop's bullet lodged in his liver, the result of a fateful incident in his own driveway in the...